Armchair Modeller

Cordless motor - what an interesting concept! ;) I am sure it must be a typo, but amusing none the less!

Just wonder on C2925 if the view is from the Hucknall station overbridge looking north, rather than from Hucknall Colliery, which was south of the station. Sorry if I am being a bit pedantic.

Train drivers' uniforms just don't get any better than this.... http://www.dorevillage.co.uk/files/images/miniature_railway_1905_big.jpg Brook House Miniature Railway, on Grove Road, circa 1905

A new discovery for me - the Sibelius Surusoitto for organ op. 111b Written in 1931 - his last published work. Make sure you turn the sound up!

There is concern about the quality of some of the new stadiums for the World Cup in Brasil. To cover their options, they have asked John Cleese to perform the official opening ceremony at one of them. If all is well, it will be called the John Cleese Stadium .......but if the stadium doesn't come up to scratch he will announce it as the Brasil Fawlty Stadium instead.

..Sounds great but where did that get us in the end? - we still lost France and the Crimean War

The traverser surely includes the cabin and the walkway on the right-hand side of the photo, so everything including the turnout must move together.

A brilliant set of photos! Could I humbly suggest that you put a reference number against each of your images - and that people use them when making comments, so we all know exactly which ones people are referring to.

Even if you had all the official information, trains would still break down or be late. Extra coaches may have been added to cope with demand. Something might have been changed to suit a one-off problem in the carriage sidings. A broken window or failed brakes may have resulted in a carriage being temporarily withdrawn. The Nether Wallop Pigeon Fanciers Association may have unexpectedly required two vans to get their birds to a remote part of Yorkshire. Trying to achieve 100% accuracy - or even worse, claiming to be accurate just is not credible.

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24655733

Mentioning "cement the location", there was also the rail-connected quarry and lime works just west of the station, on the north side of the line and another east of the viaducts on the south side of the line, until recent times. I am not sure when they closed, but it could not have been long before the railway was shut.

This may give you a few ideas for differentiating yours from the BR version - Tasmanian ones are narrow gauge, but otherwise very closely related.

I would suggest a full P.O. scheme - and wire up the match truck for extra pickup.

The Drewrys could easily have been sold to the private user company from new, never mind secondhand from BR. They were sold all over the world, in a variety of gauges.

The Foden lorry is a great initiative and great model - but whilst it hurts me to mention it, a Foden is not a Foden without the distinctive logo on the radiator grille See http://www.lovelanelives.com/index.php/blog/entry/the_legendary_jim_smith_on_the_10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_2010_his_100th_BIRTHDAY http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=148104 http://trainsferriesbuses.co.uk/images/2012_07_29-glr-lorries-1.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foden_truck_%281959%29_at_Weston.JPG Apologies - this is not a criticism, just a suggestion, take it or leave it

The NLR saw other railway's regular workings, so you could consider LNWR, GNR stock for starters - or in a later period Jinties, which were used on passenger services in LMS days.

Many thanks for a very informative blog. I am building one of these kits myself and have found the tips and images very useful indeed.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the clearance problem was in the curved tunnels before Midland line trains reached the Widened Lines. The belief that coaching stock on the Widened Lines themselves could be no longer than 57 ft was eventually proved to be a myth, I believe. The biggest problem with using the Met and the Widened Lines (even more so before WW1) must have been the intensive services already using these lines. Also, there was the steep gradient up from Snow Hill to Ludgate Hill. Going back to my suggestion about using the West London line, the area north of Willesden Junction appears to have been relatively undeveloped at the start of the 20th Century, so building a connection from the Great Central would not have been particularly difficult - barring objections from the LNWR, anyway. I am not sure what the best route south of the Thames would have been though.

Access to the West London Line would have made more sense than using the Metropolitan line - you could then have reached France from the Midlands and Northern England via North Pole.

Even if there were no deterioration over time, colour reproduction on film is not reliable. Each make had its pros and cons, not to mention the quality of the light when the image was taken.

LNER and SR types may well have shared tracks abroad in WW1, though less likely in WW2. LSWR 0-6-0s and RODs were in Palestine, I believe. The Iraquis has some A4 lookalikes too................

Well, they started building the Channel Tunnel, so one hopes someone was thinking about the link. Since Watkin had involvement in both the SER and the GCR, I assume it was just a high speed link between the two, somewhere in or around London that was required?

The GCR was built to provide through services to the Continent via the Channel Tunnel. Not sure of the detail of how it was supposed to connect together through London, but surely that idea has the most potential?

The railcar looks very nice. Does the body require a lot of work to get it looking smooth?